Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Wet Paint Gala 2009
Silent Auction Art & Artists
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 Cover  Overall Image  $700 |
A Nine Artist Collaboration - "A Tale of Transformation"
"A Tale of Transformation" is the result of an invitation to Simon J. Blattner, publisher at Eastside Editions, to participate in The Center for the Book's annual Roadworks festival. Each year the invited artists carve a 36” x 36” piece of linoleum which is printed on the street using a steamroller. This year’s theme, as designated by the Center for the Book, was the exploration of the narrative process. In response, Simon decided that nine artists from Eastside Editions would be invited to create images. The only bit of information to be suggested to each artist would be the title of the project, "A Tale of Transformation". The aim was to create a different kind of narrative structure by means of chance. Each of the artists created a 12” square black and white drawing that was transferred to the linoleum, which was then carved by David Avery and Art Hazelwood. The result was inked and laid out in the street, covered with paper and blankets, and run over repeatedly by a steamroller. In order to further develop the narrative quality of the print, Simon chose to reconfigure the print as a horizontal accordion fold book. Before doing so, an edition of six copies of the print, in its original configuration, was printed by hand. The block was then cut up into smaller sections and printed on our Charles Brand press at Eastside Editions studio in San Francisco. Donor: Simon J. Blattner (Publisher, Eastside Editions) Click: See the process of creating "A Tale of Transformation" | ||
 "Elysian Drift" 2004 26" x 19" Etching Edition of 20 On Handmade Cotton Paper  $1000 |
Kim Anno Kim Anno was born in Los Angeles, California and lives currently in Berkeley. She is a painter and a bookmaker. Her painting is contemporary abstraction and is influenced by Ukiyo-e prints, the physical body, and Islamic and Asian architecture and textiles. In 2003 she published "The Mirror of Simple Souls". Anno has shown in venues worldwide, and in June 2004 she had a solo exhibition at Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. Anno’s work is included in museum collections internationally. Anno has received many awards, fellowships, and grants, as well as a City of Oakland public art commission. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Art at California College of the Arts. Donor: Simon J. Blattner (Publisher, Eastside Editions) Click: Meet Kim Anno | ||
 "Untitled" 1997 15" x 15" Monoprint 12 of an Edition of 66 $850 |
Squeak Carnwath Squeak Carnwath maintains a studio in Oakland, CA where she has lived and worked since 1970. Born in Abington, PA in 1947, she received her MFA from California College of Arts & Crafts in 1977 and since 1982 has taught at the University of California.Carnwath is a prolific artist who has been shown in numerous exhibitions all over the country. Her work is currently featured in Squeak Carnwath: Painting is No Ordinary Object, at the Oakland Museum of Art through August 23, 2009. She has received numerous grants and awards including Guggenheim Fellowships, Individual Artist Fellowships from the NEA, and grants from the University of California. Her luminous canvases, drawings and prints are embellished with numbers, lists of words, and abstract symbols, offering keen reflections on the human experience, nature's rhythms, and the passage of time. As Carnwath puts it, " Art is the antidote that reminds us to breathe, to feel the soles of our feet and the touch of the ground on the bottom of our toes." Donor: Kate Eilertsen Click: Meet Squeak Carnwath | ||
 "Harmony" 30" x 22" Ebony Pencil & Charcoal on Paper $2000 "Interlude" 30" x 22 1/2" Ebony Pencil & Charcoal Pencil on Paper $2000 |
Donald Clement Donald Clement is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He is currently exploring the tensions between order and disorder, texture, and the influence of movement and sound in the art process.Donor: Donald Clement | ||
"Cuba 17B" 25 1/2" x 25 1/2" Pastel on Cotton $2000 |
Will Combs Will Combs is a visual anthropologist and former Hollywood art director whose paintings are collected and exhibited worldwide. "My work is a rattlebag of tinhorn mythology, Ozark humor and simple Catholic voodoo distilled into figurative dream narratives utilizing a Latin palette. My goal is to first attract then unhinge the viewer through advances of whimsy and a unique color sense. My ultimate hope with the work is to suppress questioning and restore silence."Donor: Will Combs Click: Meet Will Combs | ||
 "Fall Gown" 21" x 22" Archival Digital Print $600 |
Margaret Hatcher Margaret Hatcher received a BA in printmaking from California State University, Fullerton and later studied fashion design at the Louise Salinger Academy of Fashion in San Francisco. For the past 20 years, she has design and constructed costumes for theater, film, and fine art print. Her costume credits include Jim Henson’s International Festival of Puppet Theater in NYC, the San Francisco Opera, and the MGM video game version of “the Outer Limits.” In 2000, she was awarded a Gerbode Foundation Designer Residency Grant for her collaboration with ShadowLight Productions. Her work has been exhibited a the di Rosa Preserve, the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and the Sonoma Cultural Arts Council. Donor: Margaret Hatcher | ||
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"Ballade aux Masques 1" 1983 20" x24" Polaroid Photograph 4 of an Edition 5 Edition is Sold Out $5000 |
Beatrice Helg Beatrice Helg was born in and currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland in 1956. She has studied cello at the Geneva Music Conservatory and studied photography at both the California College of Arts and Crafts and Santa Barbra's Brooks Institute. Beatrice has curated shows in North America and Europe.Donor: Saret Gallery Click: Meet Beatrice Helg | ||
 "Dunes, Morocco" 20" x 16" Fine Art Photographic Print $1500 |
Lisa Kristine Lisa Kristine is a San Francisco-based photographer specializing in images of remote, indigenous peoples. Initially spending nearly five years in Asia, she immersed herself in world philosophies and religions. Upon her return in 1988, she showed her first body of photographic work. For over 23 years, Lisa has documented life in over 60 countries on six continents throughout the world and has been active in publications, galleries, foundations, museums and educational venues.Lisa Kristine is respected as a skilled photographer. Her intuition and passion, coupled with a strong attention to technical detail make for stunning prints which boast crisp, sharp grain and sensual color saturation. The work, both inspiring and evocative, draws a connection between the beholder and the engaging subjects of the photographs. Each exquisite print is opulent and elegant, allowing the image to be viewed with reverence and sensitivity. As haunting as the images are thought-provoking, the artist wishes to open a dialogue about the diversity, beauty and hardship of our interlocking world. Donor Lisa Kristine Gallery Click: Meet Lisa Kristine | ||
 Peapod" 13" Long Ceramic Sculpture $300 "Stack of Six" From the series "Los Toallitas de mi Abuela" ("My Grandmother's Terrycloths") 18" x 5" Ceramic Sculpture $1500 |
Emma Luna "My sculptures reproduce the everyday fabric objects such as washcloths, socks, and just about anything I can get my hands on to reproduce, utilizing the illusionist possibilities inherent in clay as a medium. However, I render this illusion so that the ordinary object simultaneously produces an impression on the extraordinary. Rows of rolled hand towels, piles of terry cloths whose positions defy gravity, a chaotic pile of laundry frozen in shapes that the fabric itself could never hold, and so forth. Mine is a voyage of intimate exploration into a subliminal form shared by both clay and fabric: the fold. At the same time, my work de-familiarizes an anonymous and routine form of ‘women’s work’ whose aesthetic possibilities no one but a woman would be likely to apprehend."Donor: Emma Luna Click: Meet Emma Luna | ||
 "Flipping the Birds" 17 3/4" x 27 3/4" 10 Color Etching Edition of 15 On Textured White Paper $900 |
Kara Maria Kara Maria has exhibited her paintings and works on paper in solo shows at venues including Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. Maria has been the recipient of awards and honors including a residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, an Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Series commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission, and a grant from The Art Council, San Francisco. She received her BA and MFA from the University of California at Berkeley Department of Art Practice. Maria lives and works in San Francisco, CA.Donor: Simon J. Blattner (Publisher, Eastside Editions) Click: Meet Kara Maria | ||
 "Begin 2" 15" x 10" Etching Edition of 20 On Handmade Cotton Paper $900 |
Frances McCormack Frances McCormack’s lush canvases make reference to places in nature; a forest, a garden, a tree, but their purpose is to evoke in the viewer a keener awareness of growth and decay, spontaneity and restraint, the persuasive and the implacable. About her work Kenneth Baker has written: “ Drawing divides, even when she does it with a brush, while her lush, loosely bounded painting draws us close. Passages of pure painting offer themselves materially as touchstones for the uncertain and inconsistent inklings of scale given by drawing. Color burns here with associative power, there it stands it’s ground as abstraction.”(S.F. Chronicle October 13, 2007) McCormack was born in Boston and received her MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. She is Associate Professor in the Painting Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. McCormack was the recipient of the first SFAI faculty residency at the American Academy in Rome, three Buck Foundation individual artist grants and a Djerassi Residency. She is currently collaborating with San Francisco composer Kurt Rohde on designing the sets for an opera he is writing. Donor: Simon J. Blattner (Publisher, Eastside Editions) Click: Meet Frances McCormack | ||
 "Bay Bridge, Morning" 23" x 15 1/2" Etching Edition of 20 $1200 |
Jenny Robinson Jenny's earliest impressions of light and shadow were formed in Sarawak, Borneo, where she was born. Since studying Printmaking at WSCAD in Surrey UK, Jenny has traveled extensively throughout the world. During this time she has concentrated on refining and developing her technique, which examines the effects of light and shadow on buildings and architectural detail. Jenny’s work concentrates on urban imagery, like monumental and landmark structures, with a more recent focus on the overlooked, the mundane, and everyday urban scenes. These landmarks are often neglected and allowed to deteriorate, yet remain a part of our everyday landscape. The spontaneity of mark-making enables her to work with more freedom, and to concentrate on textures and the overlaying of inks. A full time painter/printmaker, Jenny moved to San Francisco from England in 2000. Jenny regularly exhibits in London and California. Donor: Simon J. Blattner (Publisher, Eastside Editions) Click: Meet Jenny Robinson | ||
 Handmade & Handtooled Porcelain Vessels with Bronze Glaze 3 Feet Tall (approximately) (2 Lots) $350 Each |
David Ross & Leta Davis The David Ross Ceramic studio has been in Sonoma for 25 years. David began his pottery career in Los Angeles, where his work was highly influenced by classical Chinese pottery. Although Ross has worked in many styles, much of the work in the last 10 years has been Arts and Crafts-influenced porcelain. A master of his craft, his work has been in many galleries, magazines and books. His work is currently at West County Design, Del Mano Gallery in LA and other local galleries. Leta Davis, Ross's wife, recently began collaborating with him, bringing her experience as a painter and designer to the work. These new pieces are a fusion of their ideas and skills. Donor: David Ross & Leta Davis Click: Meet David Ross & Leta David | ||
 "Another Story" 23 1/4" x 15 3/4" Etching with Watercolor Edition of 10 $1500 |
Jennie Smith Jennie Smith was born in 1981 in San Francisco, California where she currently lives and works and received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Smith’s previous projects include the Bulletin Board at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2006) and the 2006 Whitney Biennial, New York. Donor: Simon J. Blattner (Publisher, Eastside Editions) Click: Meet Jennie Smith | ||
 "Red Paper Cup" 18" x 9" 4 Plate Etching with Aquatint Edition of 25 On Handmade Cotton $800 |
Don Williams "Originally from Nebraska I moved to San Francisco in 1969. After 10 years in the city I was lured to Sonoma by the warm summers. My wife, Kathleen is a reading teacher in the Napa Public Schools, and we have one son, Cooper.I received my BFA from the University of Nebraska in 1964 and in 1966 I received my MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans. My exhibition record includes over 35 one-man shows in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and Japan. Donor: Simon J. Blattner (Publisher, Eastside Editions) Click: Meet Don Williams | ||
